Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.
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Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 4th officina. IVL CRISPVS NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, wreath enclosing VOT • V in two lines; ΔSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 161. 3.32gr, 19mm, 12h
Extremely Fine. Sharp details; beautiful dark patina with brown highlights.
From a private collection, UK. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £35
Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 2nd officina. IVL CRISPVS NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, wreath enclosing VOT • V in two lines; BSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 161. 3.03gr, 19mm, 6h
Extremely Fine. Dark green patina with brown highlights.
From a private collection, UK. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Siscia mint. Struck AD 321-325. 4th officina. IVL CRIS-PVS NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM around wreath with jewel at apex containing VOT • X in two lines; ΔSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 161. 3.58gr, 19mm, 6h
Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 5th officina. IVL CRISPVS NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, wreath enclosing VOT • V in two lines; ЄSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 161. 3.49gr, 19mm, 12h
Extremely Fine.
From a private collection, UK. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 2nd officina. IVL CRISPVS NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, wreath enclosing VOT • X in two lines; BSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 165. 3.77gr, 19mm, 12h
Extremely Fine. Some original silvering remaining.
From a private collection, UK. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 322-323. CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, globe set on altar inscribed VOTIS XX in three lines; three stars above, C-R across fields, PLG in exergue. RIC VII 168. 1.79gr, 19mm, 6h
Very Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Siscia mint; struck AD 319. 1st officina. IVL CRISPVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VICT LAETAE PRINC PERP, two Victories standing facing each other, holding shield inscribed VOT PR in two lines, on altar inscribed I; •ASIS• in exergue. RIC VII 87. 3.80gr, 19mm, 7h
Near Extremely Fine. Much original silvering remaining. Extremely rare mintmark variant.
From a private collection, UK. -
Maximinus II BI Nummus. AD 310-313.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Treveri mint; struck AD 310-313. IMP MAXIMINVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / SOLI INVICTO COMITI, Sol standing facing, head to left, right hand raised, holding globe with left; T F across fields; PTR in exergue. RIC VI 866b. 5.03gr, 23mm, 12h
Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples on CoinArchives.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Licinius I BI Nummus. AD 308-324.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Treveri mint; struck AD 310-313. 1st officina. IMP LICINIVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / GENIO POP ROM, Genius standing facing, head to left, holding patera with right hand and cornucopia with left; T-F across fields, PTR in exergue. RIC VI 845b. 4.15gr, 23mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Licinius I BI Nummus. AD 308-324.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
London mint; struck AD 313-314. 1st officina. IMP LICINIVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / GENIO POP ROM, Genius standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia; star in left field, PLN in exergue. RIC VI 249; C&T 8.01.001; RML 607. 2.53gr, 20mm, 6h
Good Very Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Licinius I BI Nummus. AD 308-324.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Siscia mint; struck AD 319-320. 4th officina. IMP LICI-NIVS AVG, laureate head to right / VICT• LAETAE PRINC PERP, two Victories standing facing, holding shield inscribed VOT PR on column inscribed S; ΔSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 96. 3.11gr, 19mm, 2h
Good Very Fine. Much silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Licinius II, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 317-324.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Siscia mint; struck AD 319-320. 5th officina. LICINIVS IVN NOB CAES, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / VICT • LAETAE PRINC PERP, two Victories standing facing one another, together holding shield inscribed VOT PR in two lines on altar inscribed S; • ЄSIS • in exergue. RIC VII 88. 3.18gr, 20mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.